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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. Comedy is the public version of a private darkness. Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. Man likes to create and to clear paths—that is undeniable. But why is he so passionately fond of chaos? What the head brands as shameful may appear as sheer beauty to the heart. With the thoughts I’d be thinkin’ You’ll believe in more than that before I’m finished with you. The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. Oh, Kitty, how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking Glass House! I’m sure it’s got, oh! such beautiful things in it! All you can do is lose your temper | ||
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What a joke life is, if you take it seriously, If you can touch the clocks and never start them, then you can start the clocks and never touch them. That’s logic, as I know and use it. Reason is the lie, the balm we apply. The math says yes, but the mind boggles. There is a concatenation of all events in the best of possible worlds; for, in short, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for the love of Miss Cunegund; had you not been put into the Inquisition; had you not traveled over America on foot; had you not run the Baron through the body; and had you not lost all your sheep, which you brought from the good country of El Dorado, you would not have been here to eat preserved citrons and pistachio nuts. No! Why preach against passions? Aren’t they the only beautiful thing in this world, the source of heroism, enthusiasm, poetry, music, the arts, everything? Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there’s no one to live in it. You began life by accepting everything, then went on to denying everything on principle. Now end your life by comprehending. A fire drill does not demand a fire. | ||
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I am very ignorant, sir, but I am contented with my ignorance... I’m seeking death without the need to die. Make sure you’re right, then go ahead. Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else—and it hasn’t—it’s that girls should stick to girl’s sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such. We are the dreamers of dreams. To love is an active verb and woman’s a passive noun. Go—not knowing where. Bring—not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown. Music is none of my business. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. I do nothing that a man of unlimited funds, superb physical endurance, and maximum scientific knowledge could not do. I believe that man is above all a creative animal... | ||
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Try? There is not try. There is only do or not do. Contrariwise... If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic. Thinking’s a dizzy business, a matter of catching as many of those foggy as you can and fitting the together the best you can. There are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and
intelligence. People who don’t need a lock are lucky, aren’t they? Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order. People may be moved by words and ideas, but it takes example to make them follow. Evidence of goofiness is easily found; the more you dig into yourself, the more you turn up. Every problem becomes very childish when once it is explained to you. | ||
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There is a wisdom that is woe;
but there is a woe that is madness. Oh, I takes dat gospel There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important. There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. Doh! Yabba-dabba-do! No, I was born in disfavor, a stepchild of life; and I was pursued, hunted, in a word, cursed. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. All perverted men are admirers of women. | ||
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideal, show me something better, and I will follow you. You must let yourself be fooled, more or less, to live at all. Well, it doesn’t matter where you’re from. It’s where you’re going that counts. | ||
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